It's headlines like these which are the reason you can't or should not really give a fuck about news anymore. There's only exaggerations, hype and bloated stories left in news. I don't even want to read the article when it's using a headline like this.
But ok, we'll switch to the first part of the subtitle.
And we shouldn't change titles but discuss whether or not sites that use titles like these should be qualified/used as sources or get "banned".
This is a worldwide phenomena and it's terrible. It's ruining trust in media and dulls the power of words.
I don't think that at HN we have much power to affect "trust in media" or "the power of words", but if we did, the way to wield it would be to select the best articles and deselect the worst titles, which is what we try to do anyway.
Banning entire publications wouldn't help because the good and bad articles are scattered across many publications and often exist side by side.
> A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley National Park has alarmed environmentalists, who say mining the metal is unacceptable, even if it is an essential ingredient in the production of zero-emission electric vehicles.
Not everyone on HN is in their twenties.
And to make it even more OT: the "war" between West and East was won by the West the moment when people in the East started almost revering physical objects coming from the West, such as blue jeans. I remember that growing up in the '80s my mother's only jeans dress had an almost mythical status, it was THE one piece of clothing from our family's wardrobe that had that extra thing. I remembered of that feeling this past weekend while watching a Russian movie describing the '80s as lived on the Eastern side of the Wall (the movie is called "Leto" [1], I highly recommend it), during which movie one of the female characters highly wishes to purchase a pair of jeans for herself, if only she would have had the money.
It is my intuition that the Western sovietologists from back in the day didn't have access to this type of information on the real feelings of the people living in Eastern Europe and in the former USSR, they were looking mostly at translated articles from Pravda and at satellite photos of rocket-launch sites in order to predict the health of the system. Turns out they were looking at the wrong stuff.
Not so fast. The most populous country and the largest world economy by purchasing power parity is communist China. The physical objects people revere are likely made there or in neighboring communist Vietnam.
So this was not really based on the influence of US news but I think it fit quite well nevertheless.
edit: I think in the comics it's "Werner, die Russen kommen!" when Werner and his colleague are joking about their boss and his hysterical character and Werners colleague impersonates the boss. Just to give a little more context. ;-)